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Marshall McLuhan

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The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving towards the grand fallacy.

 
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Life, like war, is a series of mistakes; and he is not the best Christian nor the best general who makes the fewest false steps. Poor mediocrity may secure that; but he is the best who wins the most splendid victories by the retrieval of mistakes. Forget mistakes; organize victory out of mistakes.

 
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Dark shapes moving under me.
Every fear I swallow makes me small.
Inconsequential things occur,
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